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The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042)

by: The Rev. Jim Jones, et al. (The Peoples Temple cult)

Unknown; Tracked and FLAC'ed by Olen Sluder (olen AT acm DOT org)

Publication date: 1978-11-18
Usage: Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
Topics: Spoken Word, Historical
Item Size: 781.8M

An audio recording made on November 18, 1978, at the Peoples Temple compound in Jonestown, Guyana immediately preceding and during the mass suicide and murder of over 900 members of the cult.

Notes

I acquired the source cassette tape from a schoolmate c. 1979 whose father was an FBI agent

The sound levels were increased as close as possible to clipping when I mastered to CD-R from cassette and then normalized to -18dB average RMS power (loudness) in Sound Forge

An interesting website for further research is the Jonestown Institute which contains transcripts as well as commentary on this and other recordings recovered by the FBI from Jonestown after the mass suicide and murders.